The Bobover Rebbe, zt”l, Rav Shlomo Halberstam, was once leading a Tana’im event, an engagement, on a Motza’ei Shabbos. After he read the Sh’tar, he broke the plate as is customary. Somehow, he cut his finger while he broke the plate.
However, he did not lose his calm even for a moment, and he even looked extremely joyful that this happened. Someone asked why he was happy about it, and he shared the following idea.
The Bas Kol (Heavenly Voice)
“We find in the Gemara (Sotah 7a) that forty days before a baby is formed, a Bas Kol, a Heavenly Voice declares, ‘The daughter of so-and-so is destined to marry so-and-so.’ Similarly, the Gemara in Chulin (7a) tells us that one does not cut his finger unless a heavenly voice announced this from above. Both this Shidduch that we are celebrating now and my cut finger were the subject of a Bas Kol, a Heavenly Voice!”
Reprinted from the Parshas Pinchas 5784 email of Rabbi Yehuda Winzelberg’s Torah & Tefillah.
